I was delighted to be interviewed recently by Nicole Melanson for her terrific blog, WordMothers http://www.wordmothers.com, a site dedicated to showcasing women’s work in the literary arts around the world. I recommend following her to find out more about women writers everywhere. Thanks, Nicole, for the following post.
Interview by Nicole Melanson ~
Angela Savage is a Melbourne writer, who has lived and travelled extensively in Asia. Her first novel, Behind the Night Bazaar, won the 2004 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. All three of her Jayne Keeney PI novels have been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Awards, with The Dying Beach also shortlisted for the 2014 Davitt Award. She won the 2011 Scarlet Stiletto Award for short crime fiction. Angela is currently studying for her PhD in Creative Writing.
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Behind the Night Bazaar by Angela Savage
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED?
I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember; I still have a book of bad poetry I wrote when I was ten, complete with “about the author” blurb on the cover.
I wrote off and on for years until 1998, when…
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Great interview. This just makes me anticipate the next Jayne Keeney even more. And I hope that the work on surrogacy will — in whole or in part — be accessible online at some point. This is such a frought issue. Recently more celebrities and professionals have been on television discussing how their children were born via surrogates; this is people with a lot of financial means who can afford to do this. Or when reading someone biography online, there is a line that the person has a biological child and one born via surrogate.
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Thanks for dropping by, Kathy. You can see that I’m not blogging as much as I’m used to, due to the dual demands of tutoring and studying at university. The surrogacy novel is coming along, slowly but surely, in between marking student assignments. Come second semester, I’ll be turning more of my attention to my own writing.
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Well, your loyal fans will gladly wait for your next book, whether Jayne appears or not. I had not realized the surrogacy book will be a novel — Rah! Rah! That intrigues me even more. Will it be have a mystery flavor to it?
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